The image was created by a forensics specialist based on information described by an Ingham County shooting victim. The witness was also able to describe the suspected shooterţÄôs vehicle in the Oct. 18 incident. The witness said the suspected vehicle resembles a 1998 Oldsmobile Alero or Toyota Camry.

The number of reported shootings in the case that’s expanded to four counties has jumped from 16 last week to 22 incidents Monday, according to the multi-jurisdictional task force that has been formed to investigate them.

The most recent of these are still reports from the same time frame as last week’s random shootings, between around 6 p.m. Oct. 16 until 6:40 p.m. Oct. 18.

Wixom Chief of Police Clarence Goodlein confirmed Monday that there have been no related shootings reported since a call came in between 6:20 and 6:40 p.m. in M-52 in Ingham County.

Further, the task force released a composite sketch of the suspect — of a man in his 30s with stubble and close-cropped hair — on Sunday.

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Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe confirmed 22 of the shootings thus far, with no injuries.

Two more shootings, reportedly from Oct. 18, have been called in for the village of Perry and in Shiawassee County, adding to the count.

With members from nine different agencies, the task force — in a release Monday afternoon — said they have received more than 100 tips.

The release states: “Over half of those tips have been investigated. Investigators continue to work on the open and pending tips.”

To date, there have been 10 incidents reported at the Wixom Police Department; seven reported at the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office; two reported at the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office; one reported to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office; one reported to the Perry Police Department and one to the Shiawassee County Sheriff’s Office, according to the task force’s most recent tally.

Chief Goodlein said that while there is no new information after the sketch of the suspect that the task force has released, it is probably the best piece of information that it has.

There have also been unconfirmed reports in social media that the task force has now involved the FBI and has found fingerprints on a bullet shell casing.

“We have accessed some of their (FBI) resources, but they don’t have a horse in the race,” said Wixom’s Goodlein. “So far, they haven’t donated any personnel or equipment.”

Goodlein added, though, that it doesn’t mean the task force won’t exercise that option, as it’s been told it has the FBI’s resources at its disposal. He said the reports of found fingerprints also are false, explaining that ballistics analysis is a complex process that will take more than a few days.

Goodlein noted that half of the evidence is being analyzed at the Michigan State Police crime lab and half is under investigation in Oakland County.

School protection ramped-up

In schools surrounding the areas where the most shootings took place, recess was held strictly indoors Monday.

As many as five schools reportedly locked their doors, even though the shooter seems to be targeting mainly motorists.

Judy Evola, spokeswoman for the Walled Lake Consolidated School District, said that the Wixom-area schools are the ones that are most affected by this lockdown.

“Loon Lake Elementary, Wixom Elementary and Banks Middle School will hold recess indoors,” said Evola, who is director of community relations for the district.

Walled Lake Western also had high police presence during arrival and dismissal times at the school, she said.

It’s unclear when this policy will be lifted, but Evola stressed that the district will be continuing its ongoing collaboration with all law enforcement involved in this case and are taking recommendations from these agencies.

Chief Goodlein cautions that parents shouldn’t keep their children home from school.

“We had extra patrol vehicles in the Walled Lake area school district, and we have marked vehicles from other jurisdictions lending a hand,” Goodlein said.

He said his staff has talked with Walled Lake schools about a security plan and the police department has ramped-up patrol during reported shooting times (around 2 p.m.) at area schools.

“These are schools,” said Goodlein. “They’re safe places.”

He said that 20 to 25 detectives have been working on this case at any given time, with the ability to use other resources if they need to.

Wixom resident Bob Thompson lives near one of the areas where a shooting was reported.

“It’s kind of disconcerting obviously because it doesn’t do much for the community’s reputation,” said Thompson.

The composite sketch the multi-agency task force released shows a white man in his 30s with close-shaven facial hair and a short hairdo.

Further description of the suspect’s vehicle ranges from a dark-colored, possibly four-door Chevrolet Cavalier to a possible Ford Mustang with blue-tinted headlights.

Reader Sevi Stokes — in an email Monday — said that’s not what she saw at all.

She says she was a victim of an apparent shooting that she thought must have been fireworks between 7:06 and 7:10 p.m. Oct. 16, and wants to let readers know that she thinks the sketch is wrong.

“After playing the events over in my head several times and while driving around this weekend to run errands, I am 100 percent sure that the vehicle they should be looking for is a 2011-12 (Dodge) Charger,” said Stokes. “Also, the profile done on the shooter (this weekend) is wrong. They should be looking for a Middle Eastern man; dark hair, clean cut, parted to the right in his late 20s to early 30s.”

She says as she turned right onto Benstein Road from Maple Road, she approached railroad tracks.

She heard a popping sound and felt something hit her car, thinking that her tire was blown.

“Seconds passed between that when I heard another two pops and looked behind me and didn’t see anything in my blind spot and couldn’t see a car behind me at the time,” Stokes said.

While she says she wrote the noises off as fireworks, she saw a car approaching her at a high rate of speed — faster than the 45 miles per hour that was posted as she was approaching Loon Lake Road.

She made it up to the light, which had since turned red, and got into the left turn lane. She saw a car pull up next to her.

“My gut feeling was that something was not right,” she said. “I looked to my right at the vehicle and its occupant. The vehicle had slightly tinted windows ... the color of the vehicle was blue-gray. The occupant ... was sitting down low in his seat and did not look back at me as the light turned green.”

She said she told herself she was going crazy.

She didn’t find any damage to her car when she got home, but the next day she heard about the shootings and realized she was one of the people who had been shot at.

Stokes — who asked that her address not be published — said she is in contact with the police and is working with them.

She planned to take her car to the Wixom Police Department to have the undercarriage checked.

“I truly hope they catch this slime bag,” she said. “He is creating mass terror in people. Everyone is tense and on edge.”

Other victims who have contacted The Oakland Press have confirmed this, and have stated they would rather stay out of the media.

“I am leaving this entirely up to my husband as it has been a scary few days since the incident,” said reader Neale Mason. “He’s fearful of being so public. There were Wixom police patrolling near his work Friday.”

Her husband hasn’t returned calls.

Megan Semeraz contributed to this report. Contact staff writer John Turk at 248-745-4613 or john.turk@oakpress.com.